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Abuja, Nigeria – Nigerian President Mihammadu Buhari has finally worked out what he promised to the citizens during his last year’s election campaign. He has given approval for selling of a Hawker 4000 and a Falcon 7x executive jet, the two presidential aircraft at the Presidential Air Fleet (PAF). Buhari added more aircrafts are also in pipeline to be sold ...

At least half ton people were left dead in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region due to stampede triggered following teargas and air shot by police Sunday in an effort to disperse anti-government protesters at an annual religious festival. According to state broadcaster citing officials 52 people were killed. Opposition too confirmed the toll as more than fifty at the festival where some ...

Under South Africa law the same-sex civil unions are legal, but lately the Anglican Church has rejected the vote for a proposal to allow prayers of blessing for the couple. Church’s Synod is the top legislative body and the vote was held in Cape Town. The churches to oppose the vote include Anglicans in Agola, Mozambique, South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia, ...

Gabon President Ali Bongo has named new prime minister. Foreign Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet has been promoted for the chair. Bongo won the election by thin margin and took oath of president a day before. His integrity was earlier widely questioned by international observers. In a televised statement the president was learned asking Ngondet to form the new government. He ...

Early Thursday a police station in northeastern Kenya near to Somalia border was attacked and authorities say the fighters were from Somalia and they carried out cross-border attack. Later the Al-Shabab militants took credit of the attack on the police station at Hameey Village. Police spokesman George Kinoti said the fighters came in two Land Cruisers and attacked a patrol ...

One elephant is lost in every fifteen minutes and data reveals their population has dropped drastically by about a third since 2007. The official figure further is shocking as in past nine years the numbers of African elephants have highly fallen. Published in August this year the Great Elephant Census discovers only 352,271 Savannah elephants across the 8 countries surveyed ...

Kenya announced Friday about donating $5 million to Global Fund Against Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Amina Mohamed announced the contribution which is one of the highest from Africa. He was speaking on at the Global Fund Replenishment conference in Montreal, Canada, on behalf of Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. Mohamed said in the success of Kenya combating ...